Beadle's Dime Novels No. 139: The Border Foes — page 48: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER Vil. A SURPRISE. =. “ Wuar is to be done now, Kate ?” asked Martha, as soon as she was able to speak. “That question again! I do not know, my dear. We must do our best, and leaye the rest to Providence. It seems that we run into danger in whatever direction we turn.” __ “ Will this horrible night never come to an end? It seems to be darker than ever, if that is possible. I wonder if uncle Simon and Will have come home and found the house de- seried. What must their feelings be! They can’t help be- lieving that we have been carried off by the Indians.” : “Tt must be-an awful thing for them to know that their own home has been attacked and harried by the savages, __ while they have been absent for the purpose of destroying the ~ ¢ peace, if not the lives, of another family.” “May God have mercy upon them, and keep them from e falling into the hands of those red murderers! Wickedly as they have acted, I hope they will not be made to suffer as we have suffered.” ‘The two girls were silent for a while, as they sat and rest- ed in the deep forest. The noise made by the Indians had eased, and there was not a sound to break the extreme and ae ages stillness by which earth and air were bound. “Tf those yells were made by the savages in looking for ” said Kate, “ they must bave abandoned the pursuit, for be hear nothing more of them.” “Tt is true that we can hear them no more,” replied Mar- tha,“ but they may be none the Jess active. I can not under- BS” _ stand how it is that they seem to be scattered all through the a - woods. There must be a great many of them, or they must _ be able to get about much more easily than we can, for we have been beset on all sides, and it is a wonder that they ~~ have not taken us. I wish we could get across the river.” Gaped an thee. It can be no worse for us to go further . | ay panmlebogks.com